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Solving the mystery of Megatherium diet.

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Date: 2017-04-21 08:25:48
Blog: Letters from Gondwana
URL: https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/solving-the-mystery-of-megatherium-diet/

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Around 10,000 years ago, Argentina was home of numerous species of giant Xenarthrans, giant ground sloths (relative to tree sloth) and glyptodontids (relative to tiny extant armadillo). Sloths, characteristic of the mammal fauna of the Pleistocene of South America, show a great diversity with more than 80 genera, grouped in four families: Megatheriidae, Megalonychidae, Nothrotheriidae and Mylodontidae. For […]

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